Example sentences of "have [verb] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , ’ said Philip , shivering as the bleak little wind from Severn ruffled his grey tonsure , ‘ I swear he has received very tolerable usage there , better than I dared expect , and why he keeps such a particular hatred against the lord Isambard is something I can not fathom . |
| 2 | Popular music has received very little assistance from the various Arts Councils whose job is to disburse monies from the state and local authorities . |
| 3 | The subsidy implicit in official guarantees has received very little attention . |
| 4 | The scheme , says Renshaw , is very flexible and she has received very good management support . |
| 5 | The law on sex discrimination has provoked very little litigation in the educational context until the past few years , in contrast to the wealth of judicial consideration of the provisions concerned with sex equality in employment ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 6 | It claims it has given very similar results to patterns determined by stock price chartists , charlatans or alchemists depending on your viewpoint , whose work is very popular in Japan . |
| 7 | He has given very little account of how he spent his time , but he has said he spent the majority of that time with a travelling circus , both in this country and in the Irish Republic . |
| 8 | They cover a lot of ground so the designated flight area has to include very generous margins of up to an extra 50% over the line lengths and , most important , this area has to be clear of all spectators and especially other kites . |
| 9 | The simulated male orgasm has attracted very little attention by comparison with its female equivalent , not because it is n't as common , but because it 's in no one 's interest to publicize the fact . |
| 10 | More recently the redoubtable Larry Sloss has presented very convincing arguments , from his very wide experience , of major episodes of emergence and submergence , both on the North American craton and on cratons generally . |
| 11 | Though it has remained in much the same place , it has undergone very extensive modifications and these have profoundly influenced the distribution of its wildlife . |
| 12 | The past year has seen very few problems concerning the administration of drug testing programmes . |
| 13 | This hypothetical person ( in this case , female ) also has done very little sport or exercise for years . |
| 14 | Owers , a surprise choice as substitute against Ipswich , has done very little training , and his non-stop style will soon show whether he has fully recovered from his injury . |
| 15 | NALGO in particular has adopted very good policies , which makes my own employment more secure , and of all the organisations listed I would suggest that NALGO 's contribution has probably been the greatest . |
| 16 | Since [ J. ] has made very little development progress since the accident he has no potential to return to a healthy life and thus intensive care would not only be cruel but would artificially prolong his vegetative state . |
| 17 | Mr Wright is an accomplished narrative historian and has made very good use of the few surviving scraps of contemporary , or nearly contemporary , accounts written by members of the various civilisations . |
| 18 | It is a point of some general importance arising under a new statute which has made very substantial changes in the law relating to contracts for the sale of land . |
| 19 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 20 | The chaotic nature of the motion suggests that in any neighbourhood of any r-value there will be many ( countably many ) r-values for which this occurs , though the different homoclinic orbits involved will happen only after the unstable manifold has made very different sequences of passes through the return plane . |
| 21 | Study of evolving populations of ammonoids has produced very fine subdivisions of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks , and their only disadvantage , curiously enough , is the feature that makes them so attractive to collectors . |
| 22 | In the past , Freud has had very little place in such sociological reappraisals , but he needs to be in alongside the other major thinkers about society . |
| 23 | Bob is still waiting to be summoned by Paisley Hospital , but luckily he has had very little trouble meanwhile . |
| 24 | Driven by unsophisticated and unsuccessful opportunism , this cycle has had very serious spin-off effects for both Franklin and SelecTronics . |
| 25 | More recently , philosophy has had very close links with mathematics and artificial intelligence . |
| 26 | It has had very different meanings and connotations in its long history , and is understood differently today in the context of different social and economic systems . |
| 27 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
| 28 | That 's why one difference for example , is that the feminist movement in Europe has got very weak ties to the political movement . |
| 29 | Oxford Union treasurer Toby Lewis said : ‘ Mr Clinton has got very fond memories of Oxford and we are very optimistic he will come here in the first two years of office . |
| 30 | ‘ My dad has got very spiky hair and glasses and his face looks like mine , but he still has all his teeth . |